Breaking News: Karnataka mandates full vaccination to waive RT-PCR need for Maharashtra returnees

Karnataka mandates full-vaccination against Covid-19 for those returning to their home in the state after two days of visit to Maharashtra in order to get the RT-PCR negative test requirement waived off, according to a latest notification. As many as 14 days should also lapse after the administration of the second Covid-19 dose.

Delhi Police held a 17-year-old boy for allegedly raping and killing a woman in Dwarka area on November 15, ANI reported. Police said that the accused informed them about raping the woman, and strangling her out of feat of getting caught. The accused also “set her private parts on fire to destroy evidence,” police was quoted as saying by ANI.

As many as three liquor shops in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur will give a 10 per cent discount to customers, who are fully-vaccinated against Covid-19, on the production of the vaccination certificate starting tomorrow, ANI reported citing the district excise officer.

The central government will introduce 'The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021' in winter session of Parliament, reports ANI. The bill seeks to formulate a facilitative framework for creating official digital currency to be issued by the RBI and also ban all private cryptocurrencies in India.

The Union cabinet is set to sign off on farm laws' repeal on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the development.

The CBI has held three people, including an enforcement officer and an EPFO, in connection with a bribery case of ₹1 lakh in Yamuna Nagar.

Kashmir Police said on Tuesday that three people, all residents of Pulwama, have been arrested for the killing of salesman, Ibrahim Ahmad, in Bohri Kadal area of Srinagar on November 9. According to ANI report, police said the trio, linked to LeT (TRF), killed the salesman on the instructions of their Pakistan-based handlers.

Senior BJP leader from Himachal Pradesh Kripal Singh Parmar resigns as the party's state vice president, citing “neglect" for the last few years as the reason, ANI reported.

FIR registered against actor Kangana Ranaut in Mumbai for allegedly portraying the farmers' protest as Khalistani movement and calling them 'Khalistanis' on social media, reports ANI.

Cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad, and former Congress leader Ashok Tanwar joined TMC in Delhi on Tuesday in presence of party supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Jammu and Kashmir Police head constable Abdul Rashid Kalas awarded Kirti Chakra posthumously for showing 'exemplary courage in engaging & eliminating hardcore terrorists' during an operation in Pulwama in 2019.

His wife Tasleema Begum received the award from President Ram Nath Kovind in Delhi.

“Looking at the current political circumstances and the potential in Mamata Banerjee, I have today joined Trinamool Congress," says Pavan Varma on joining the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi.

Delhi Legislative Assembly session is scheduled to begin on November 26.

Delhi court orders registration of FIR against BJP leader Sambit Patra for allegedly posting a doctored video of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on social media.

DNA test proves that baby given for adoption is Anupama's. Report will be given to the family court. Happiest day in my life, said Anupama S Chandran who is on a stand in protest outside the child welfare council office in the state capital.

Bharat Gaurav trains can be operated by both private sector and IRCTC, fare to be decided by tour operators, says Railway minister to PTI.

Two people dead as building collapses following LPG cylinder explosion in Karungalpatti in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, police said.

BS Mubarak, presently Ambassador of India to Guatemala, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Sudan, stated MEA/

The Centre said on Tuesday that it will release 5 million barrels of crude oil from emergency stock to join attempt to cool global prices.

Days after Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said she is safe and well in a video call with the president of the International Olympic Committee, the government said on Monday that fears regarding her are being "maliciously" hyped up. 

"I think some people should stop deliberately and maliciously hyping up, let alone politicise this issue," said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

Lijian's comment came amid international concerns mounted for Shuai's well-being following her claims of sexual assault against a top Communist Party official.

Congress leader and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot said on Tueday that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) defeat in the previous bye-elections and a “looming bad performance” in the upcoming assembly elections, led to the Modi government announcing the scrapping of the three new farm laws.

In an interview with news agency PTI, Pilot said there will be consequences for the BJP in the elections as farmers distrust of the Centre will not go away with one rollback.

Delhi chief minister and and Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP’s) national convener Arvind Kejriwal announced eight guarantees for the teachers of Punjab, months ahead of the assembly elections in the state next year. Read more

Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of this winter season as the valley continued to reel under sub zero temperatures. Read more

Four houses collapsed in Karungalpatti area of Tamil Nadu's Salem district on Tuesday morning with four people still feared to be trapped under the debris. Thirteen people have been rescued so far. 

Late Colonel Santosh Babu of the 16 Bihar Regiment, who was killed in the clash with Chinese troops at Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh, will receive the Mahavir Chakra posthumously today.